Move.On.org has too much influence

I feel I must voice my concern about the blind support of anything that MoveOn.org does or says. As a lifelong registered Democrat, I am increasingly uneasy about the grip MoveOn.org has on the Democratic Party. Its messages seem no longer to be suggestions but instead are ultimatums that the elected officials must follow. Democratic congressmen no longer represent their constituents but instead are mouthpieces for an organization funded by a megalomaniacal billionaire who wants to reshape the country into a state of his own creation, whether the ordinary people are for it or not.

Because of his vast resources, this organization acts like the 300-pound gorilla and forces its will on any subject. Thus the party that espouses freedom and divergent ideas now has but one idea, that of MoveOn.org.

I am not looking for the Senate or the House to police political ads. What I am hoping for is that elected officials of the people show some backbone and state their displeasure with ads and positions that are over-the-top excessive; unless they believe in the statements, and then they should come out in support of it and let the voters see and hear what their elected officials truly believe.

It is the disingenuous political "two-step" of neither support nor deny that is so irritating to the voters.

Bob Kusek

Arlington Heights